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Homelessness, citizenship, and identity: the uncanniness of late modernity

By Kathleen R. Arnold

Book information

Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0791461114, 9780791461112
Google Books ID
Iw4PR0KnwI8C
Open Library ID
OL7803219M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1347927 bytes)
Series
national identities
Pages
223\223
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

In the aftermath of September 11, donations to the poor and homeless have declined while ordinances against begging and sleeping in public have increased. The increased security of public spaces has been matched by a quest for increased security and surveillance of immigrants. In this groundbreaking study, Kathleen R. Arnold explores homelessness in terms of the globalization of the economy, national identity, and citizenship. She argues that domestic homelessness and conditions of statelessness, such as refugees, exiles, and poor immigrants, are defined and addressed in similar ways by the political sphere, in such a manner that each of these groups are subjected to policies that perpetuate their exclusion. Drawing on such authors as Freud, Marx, Foucault, Derrida, L?vinas, and Agamben, Arnold argues for a radical politics of homelessness based on extending hospitality and the toleration of difference.

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